Bidyadanga is a community located on the Kimberley coast in Western Australia, where the Great Sandy Desert meets the sea. The word Bidyadanga is derived from pijarta/ bidyada (emu watering hole).
Name: Yvonne Mandijalu
Community: Bidyadanga
Biography:
I was born in Broome but I lived in Bidyadanga community with my mum and dad, and my two brothers and three sisters. I liked living in Bidyadanga because I like going fishing and camping there. I moved to Perth when I was eighteen and went to Central Tafe to study New Opportunities for Women, and now I’m in Newman to be close to my grandparents.
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Untitled “When Martu paint, it’s like a map. Martu draw story on the ground and on the canvas, and all the circle and line there are the hunting areas and different waters and tracks where Read more…
Untitled This is Dale’s Country- her ‘ngurra’ (home Country, camp). People identify with their ngurra in terms of specific rights and responsibilities, and the possession of intimate knowledge of the physical and cultural properties of Read more…